Abandoning the promise of end-to-end encryption by default is a blow to the…

Broken Promises: RIP Instagram’s End-to-End Encrypted DMs

Last week, Instagram ended its opt-in, and therefore rarely used, end-to-end encryption feature. Years after publicly promising to provide the privacy protections of end-to-end encryption across its platforms by default, it instead gave up on that technical challenge. Now, we've all lost an option...